A new campaign aims to help Americans make sense of the Syrian civil war, and the results are startling.

"If America were Syria, everyone in the city of Syracuse, N.Y. would have been killed," the If We Were Syrian organization writes.

"Every single person. That's in addition to 15,000 people in neighboring [Central New York] towns -- they'd all be dead, too."

According to Huffington Post, more than 150,000 people have died in Syria's civil war as of April 2014. The latest U.S. Census report found the Salt City's population was 144,170 in 2012.

An infographic posted on ifweweresyrian.org claims the losses would include 10,000 children -- 185 school buses worth of kids -- among the dead.

The campaign also compares the conflict's effect to the entire state of New York. More than 8 million people would have fled or been displaced from New York City; Buffalo, Albany, Rochester, Utica and other upstate metropolitan areas would become "ghost towns."

Yahoo! News reports Canadian journalists Shannon Gormley and Drew Gough put together the visual breakdowns of the statistics to raise awareness for the Middle Eastern country's crisis.

"It is very difficult to convey to an audience that is very far removed from the crisis the scale of it," Gormley told the site. "The numbers are completely overwhelming. Trying to visualize what nine million people look like, it is nearly impossible."

Huffington Post adds polio has become a widespread problem in Syria, and some doctors have turned to amputation to prevent patients from bleeding to death.

Gormley told Yahoo that "wealthy nations" have provided $1.1 billion in humanitarian aid for Syria, but the country needs nearly four times as much.

The United Nations sought $6.5 billion in emergency funding for Syria, according to Huffington Post, but has only received $1.2 billion. Gormley told Yahoo that the country needs nearly four times as much in humanitarian aid.

"That appeal has gone largely unanswered," UNICEF said in a press release. "The war escalates in many areas. The humanitarian situation deteriorates day after day. And for the civilians remaining in the cities of Aleppo and the Old City of Homs, as well as other parts of the country experiencing heavy fighting, the worst days seem yet to come."